met Zac Moon today from Nevada Dessert Experience, a Franciscan ministry that seeks to non-violently protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the nuclear test site in Nevada. I really enjoyed meeting with this fellow Quaker who comes as a radical Christian from the un-programmed group of Friends. In talking
Continue reading →emily and i went to the 168 hour film fest last night, wow what a lamo experience. We watched 10 short films and not counting the one I worked on there were 3 that were done fairly well. the rest all could have come from highschoolers or fundamentalist christians who
Continue reading →Yesterday’s blog was a little more extreme than i had intended – I realized this after my loving wife pointed it out to me. My paraphrase of what the Psalm means in today’s world is heavy handed and tip my hand to theological leanings. One reason why it is
Continue reading →today i read this as i was praying through Psalm 41. “Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the
Continue reading →what a weekend. starting with thursday i helped a buddy shoot his film for an LA wide event called 168. He asked me to shoot the whole thing but about 2 hours into it he took the camera and did it himself – so that was kind of a bummer. I
Continue reading →things: thoughts and mainly critiques. 1. what is my faith without it being radical? the modern day readers who find the Scriptures comforting and warming to the spirit have narrowed God down to a do-it-yourself spirituality – to a network television program about angels and miracles. when i read the end
Continue reading →i just read a robert frost poem “reluctance” which was really good, it talked about seasons coming to an end, and how we are reluctant to let seasons (and loves) come to an end – that it is a part of humanity to be reluctant. i thought it was good. anyways
Continue reading →I am a human being I am a White man and I bare the scares of those before me I am a critical person born to drug-doing, free-loving hippies I am a dreamer and I dream in my films I am a friend who wants to befriend the unlovely I
Continue reading →Well this comes about two weeks after I put the first of these online discussions. Many haven’t yet written anything but that is okay I am going to do this a little longer, hoping to find some who are are interested in simple reflection. The passage below is the
Continue reading →The Blind Man I have been thinking lately about doing something like what we used to do back in Canton for Bible study. It was biblical study based off the Quaker idea that all people are endowed with the Spirit of God to a greater or lesser extent depending on
Continue reading →Useless in the kingdom what is theology if it doesn’t help humanity? we often make a theology, because that is what it is, human made, and render it divine. the problem with that is then that we make our human made theologies the the forms to which we must
Continue reading →Jim, Emily and I kicked it today in LA. We went through echo park, silverlake, los feliz, visiting clothing stores, eating good food, etc. Then Jim and I went to watch RK play in Hollywood. we had so much fun watching their new show and hanging with the guys afterwards,
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